107 Quotes by Colin Quinn

I’m just another guy who thinks he’s smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.

You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can’t sustain it.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There’s no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you’re finished. It’s impossible to predict anything.

I’m quietly becoming New York’s premiere actor. People don’t understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn’t work anyway.

Everybody’s funny in different ways.

I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to China, I’ve been to Africa, I’ve been to the Middle East, I’ve been to Europe a little bit. I’ve never been to South America.